Greg Shill

I guess there's a meta question of what's thru-running, but if a train ran from Long Island to Newark and back, I would describe that as thru-running.

I personally like to see a paper's Table of Contents, but forgot to post ours. Here it is!

(email or DM me if you'd like to see a draft)

Seems to me that it is, in essence, thru-running?

I’m going to keep buying older and older cars until I end up driving a wood-fired locomotive.

A Steep Mountain Drive, a Brake Failure and a Volvo Recall A longtime Volvo fan’s terrifying ordeal prompted warnings from regulators and heightened scrutiny of software patches for electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids.

Call me a boomer, but cars should have emergency brakes that can be manually activated. And of course knobs on the dash for anything important (not just a screen).

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Feedback very much welcome - let me know if you'd like to see a draft!

The abundance movement has rapidly gained traction as voices across the political spectrum seek to overcome artificial scarcity in housing, energy, and infrastructure. In all these areas, transportation policy is a binding constraint —yet with limited exceptions, it’s one the movement has overlooked. This Article seeks to fill that gap by showing that abundance cannot succeed without rethinking transportation policy from the ground up. While this suggests a big lift, it offers big rewards: once reconfigured, transportation policy can be a powerful accelerant of abundance. At present, the signature goal of abundance advocates—amping up housing production—stands to collide with a key driver of scarcity: development restrictions fueled by traffic concerns. Building more housing in auto-dependent regions without reconfiguring transportation will reinforce the very logic of those restrictions. A mechanical application of the prime abundance directive—build more—would thus miss the mark: outside the exceptional case of high-speed rail, “more” is often the problem. (See urban renewal.) But “less” isn’t helpful either. What’s needed is a new approach. Drawing on original interviews with leading transportation officials and scholarship in local government law and planning, this Article makes two key contributions. First, it proposes a theory of transportation for abundance. Abundance suggests that more is better, but its canonical accounts falter when defining the desirable “more” and what’s needed to support it. This Article intervenes with a concrete and scalable framework from urban planning: transportation access, which measures system performance by the ability of users to reach destinations. Though seemingly uncontroversial, anchoring policy in this objective would mark a revolutionary departure from a century of transportation planning. The Article’s second contribution is to show that transportation reform is essential—not ancillary—to abundance, particularly for

"Transportation for the Abundant Society," new with Jonathan Levine (Umich urban planning), now under submission at law reviews.

In the abundance literature, transport is massively undertheorized relative to housing. We show why deferring action on transportation jeopardizes the larger project.

Beef patties from different countries

Calculating the tariffs on these international cows of mystery is going to be challenging

I don’t think this works, given the UK’s more monocentric structure. Manchester (or Birmingham, if you like) have been likened to Chicago, but after that it breaks down IMO. London itself contains a ton of diversity; my neighborhood knowledge is a bit dated but there might be an analogy there.

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

🎶 Just driving around in
Ron Livingston’s car 🎶

Think of it as a bullet point or slide in their presentation - not decisive, but potentially helpful.

(the game here being the certificate of designation of the common stock in question*)

*I assume; I haven't read it.

Major data revisions are coming That should make you trust official statistics more

Actually, data revisions should make you trust official statistics more.

www.slowboring.com/p/major-data...

Documenting Recent Convergence in Home Prices Across Local U.S Real Estate Markets Zillow uses its Big Data on local real estate markets to create interesting data for the public to play with.

Interesting post from @mattkahn1966.bsky.social on home price (semi-)convergence across real estate markets.
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Tesla found partially liable for fatal 2019 crash, hit with $200 million in punitive damages The outcome is a stunning rebuke for Tesla, which for years has fought to absolve itself of responsibility when its technology is involved in a crash.

Some raised brows among automation managers at OEMs today, one imagines. wapo.st/46yCTFN

Because this project will be fully grade separated, it should be built as automated light metro (e.g., Toulouse Metro, Milan M5, Honolulu Skytrain). This can enable:
—More reliable & often faster service
—More frequent service
—Shorter platforms (& thus cheaper-to-build stations)

Coal: not ideal for clean air.

At a high level, the issue is that the social media anti-trust attack on abundance was that it was interpersonal from the start, not even factional let alone factual. I've seen this a lot over the years in housing discourse online and its just baffling. Picking bad fights for no reason.

What's the best explanation for the president's apparent (at least partial, at least for now) turn on Russia policy?

a scene from seinfeld shows a woman opening a refrigerator door ALT: a scene from seinfeld shows a woman opening a refrigerator door

Now let’s have a look at those labor market revisions…

Law (specifically, ex ante litigation risk mitigation) predominates here. Cf. a corporate board getting a fairness opinion from an investment bank for a deal well over market price, or a bank requiring an independent appraisal before making a home loan that is straightforward on comps and LTV ratio.

The best aesthetic - “this *should* look terrible, but it works”

“‘Practical?’ It didn’t have a tape deck.”

1986 Nissan 300ZX - 5-Speed Manual, 3.0-Liter V6, 1-Family and California-Owned This 1986 Nissan 300ZX is for sale on Cars & Bids! Auction ends August 1 2025.

What a fun Z car. T top, gold color, V6, 49k miles, 1-family-owned. Currently bid at $10k, closes today. carsandbids.com/auctions/3LG...

Sorry bro, I published the article 62 years ago. Will keep that in mind for the next one. ✌️

Interesting! I don’t; it’s on my list.